title: Impacts of climate change on rainfall extremes and urban drainage systems: a review.
abstract: A review is made of current methods for assessing future changes in urban rainfall extremes and their effects on urban drainage systems, due to anthropogenic-induced climate change. The review concludes that in spite of significant advances there are still many limitations in our understanding of how to describe precipitation patterns in a changing climate in order to design and operate urban drainage infrastructure. Climate change may well be the driver that ensures that changes in urban drainage paradigms are identified and suitable solutions implemented. Design and optimization of urban drainage infrastructure considering climate change impacts and co-optimizing these with other objectives will become ever more important to keep our cities habitable into the future.
authors.affiliation: Technical University of Denmark, Department of Environmental Engineering, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark. karn@env.dtu.dk
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Arnbjerg-Nielsen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Willems
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Olsson
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beecham
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pathirana
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bülow Gregersen
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Madsen
authors.forename: V-T-V
authors.initials: VT
authors.lastname: Nguyen
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D057231:Climate Change; D004323:Drainage, Sanitary; D011891:Rain